<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>

<em>d.font</em> allows the user to select use of a specific text font for 
display of text on the graphics monitor. 

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If the user does not specify a font when using other GRASS programs 
that display text, the font type <em>romans</em> is used by default. 

<p>The user can run this program either non-interactively or interactively. 
If the user specifies a font type name on the command line the program will 
run non-interactively. 
Alternately, the user can simply type <b>d.font</b> on the command line; 
in this case, the program will prompt the user for a display 
text font type.

<p><b>Parameter:</b> 
<dl>
<dt><b>font=</b><em>name</em>
<dd>Name of a font type, from among the font types italicized below. 
<br>
Default: <em>romans</em> 
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Options: (italized) 
<br><em>cyrilc</em> Cyrillic 
<br><em>gothgbt</em> Gothic Great Britain triplex 
<br><em>gothgrt</em> Gothic German triplex 
<br><em>gothitt</em> Gothic Italian triplex 
<br><em>greekc</em> Greek complex 
<br><em>greekcs</em> Greek complex script 
<br><em>greekp</em> Greek plain 
<br><em>greeks</em> Greek simplex 
<br><em>italicc</em> Italian complex 
<br><em>italiccs</em> Italian complex small 
<br><em>italict</em> Italian triplex 
<br><em>romanc</em> Roman complex 
<br><em>romancs</em> Roman complex small 
<br><em>romand</em> Roman duplex 
<br><em>romanp</em> Roman plain 
<br><em>romans</em> Roman simplex 
<br><em>romant</em> Roman triplex 
<br><em>scriptc</em> Script complex 
<br><em>scripts</em> Script simplex 
</dl>

<h2>NOTES</h2>

The font type 
<em>romans</em>
is the fastest font type to display to the graphics monitor. 

<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>

<em><a href="d.text.html">d.text</a></em><br>
<em><a href="d.title.html">d.title</a></em>

<h2>AUTHOR</h2>

James Westervelt, U.S. Army Construction Engineering 
Research Laboratory

<p><em>d.font</em> uses the public domain version of the Hershey Fonts created 
by Dr. A.V. Hershey while working at the U.S. National Bureau of 
Standards.

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